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Zimbardo's Stanford Prison Experiment

Link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jdOoxnr7AI&feature=plcp

This is an Open University video examining Zimbardo's (1971) pioneering experiment in social psychology.

The study asked participants to take the role of prisoners and guards in an experiment looking at conformity and identifification. The results were surprising to Zimbardo and to the rest of the world.

Date created: 
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
License: 
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Attribution for this resource:
Zimbardo's Stanford Prison Experiment, licensed under CC BY-NC-SA.
Subjects: 
Psychology, Psychology of communication, Social psychology
Keywords: 
Zimbardo, social psychology, identification, conformity